FAOSTAT (version 1.6)

CHMT: This function avoids double counting of China

Description

We assume that if the pre-aggregates exists then the individual level are present. This function should only used when performing aggregation.

Usage

CHMT(var, data, year = "Year")

Arguments

var

The variables that require to be sanitized.

data

The data frame which contains the data

year

The column which correspond to the year.

Details

We decide to use the smaller subsets in the regional level because weighting variable may not exist for other variables for the larger subsets.

The function only work for FAOST_CODE, if the country coding system is not in FAOST_CODE then use the translateCountryCode function to translate it.